I can’t believe I’ve never stumbled across Stylish until recently. It is similar to Greasemonkey, which seems to snatch all the media attention. See this page for the differences between the two. The two features that interest me the most about Stylish:
- Impossible to execute malicious code in Stylish; in Greasemonkey, you could easily install a script that contains malicious code
- Simple updating of installed styles in Stylish; in Greasemonkey, you generally have to go back to the download page of each of your scripts and manually check for updates *yawn*
Also, the official repository of user styles for Stylish, userstyles.org, is a bit better designed that that of Greasemonkey’s, userscripts.org. userstyles.org has “most popular” and “highest rated” pages, and shows popular styles in bold. Unfortunately, both sites leave a lot to be desired. It is a major pain having to scan through tens and hundreds of unverified submissions with wildly differing code quality, tagging, presentation, etc. More advanced searching and sorting methods accompanied with stricter submission requirements (perhaps a moderated section and a free-for-all section) and better presentation would be wonderful.
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I love Greasemonkey and hate sites like myspace without it. lol. I’ve known about Stylish for a while now but i only use one style, Colorize Firefox 2.0 Active Tab. That helps me alot cause i open way too many tabs. I’ve been meaning to look for more styles and maybe even totally replace greasemonkey with it but never find time to do it. Too much to do online I suppose .
Thanks for the comment, Starhawk! I’m a big fan of Greasemonkey too, but if the same features are present in a user style for Stylish, I much prefer Stylish for the two reasons I stated above.
I’ll probably list the user styles I use in another post when I find time.
I’m curious - can you elaborate on how it’s impossible to execute malicious code from within Stylish?
I’m concerned about giving any control over apps that deal with potentially sensitive material, like Gmail, for example.